Stephen King's "IT" headed for the big-screen

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I wouldn't necessarily call it a remake since the new upcoming movie (as well as the teriffic 1990 mini-series) is based on the book. So, if anything, it's just another adaptation of the novel. :)


Anyway, I'm all for a new movie but "IT" is a pretty big novel so I don't know how it's going to turn out as a 2-hour film.


The last Stephen King movie, "The Mist", was an EXCELLENT adaptation of his short story so I'm hoping the filmmakers & Warner Bros do "IT" justice.


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mixed feelings about this news "It" was a fantastic book and IMO one of Stephen King's best but if for me more often then not the film / tv movie adaptions of his books have been pretty poor.
 
Happening now, taken ages, heard about a 'remake' years ago, and apparently they are missing out the
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bit that happened at the end of the original. Does that happen in the book, and if it does is it important or doesn't matter if missed?

Also, agree, The Mist was fantastic and I liked the changed ending.
 
It's been a while since I read the book, but from what I remember:

The spider was some form of alien that had lived under the town for thousanRAB of years, possibly feeding off the negative energy of fear from the nightmares that it gave the locals. It could only be killed by weapons that meant a lot to the person (from childhood etc.).

I can't see how they could change the ending. Perhaps they just want a story about a demonic clown.
 
I mentioned this in the other King thread recently but I haven't read the book but in it they all take in turns giving Beverly one down in the sewers right?

I don't think the ending is a bad idea just that in the mini series they simply didn't have the budget to pull it off, I thought the idea was fine, just the execution failed, with the budget it just ended up looking incredibly naff.

But the idea behind the ending is far better than simply having a story about a demonic clown, what type of shape is Tim Curry in these days, maybe he could play Pennywise again, he was perfect in that role.

Also i'm not sure how they can fit this in to say a two hour movie, that's not going to give much time to spend on the characters and things but we'll see.
 
I hope if they do stick with the book ending, they do it better than the 1990 version as that was one of the weaker moments in the film IMO. I did love the film though.

Whoever is cast as Pennywise will have big shoes to fill as Tim Curry was fantastic!

I'd also love it if Frank Darabont were to direct it. He never fails to make good film adaptations of King's books.
 
This scene in the book put me right off the story (considering the characters are about 14 years old). Apparently it's some sort of 'bonding ritual'.
 
Yep, but it's just basically 2 pages of metaphors in the book (talk of birRAB soaring if I remember correctly, I don't have a copy to hand.)

I doubt they'd put it in a film version.
 
That was a real WTF moment!



I hated that, it was the same in The Shining book, I'm glad that the film versions of The Shining & IT didn't go there.
 
I really, really disliked the last 100 or so pages of 'It', the potential that had been built up over the preceding 1000+ pages was just wasted on a crappy cliche of an idea that seemed like it came from a drug induced trip on the part of Stephen King (who is my favourite author, so it hurts to say that). I just hope that it doesn't end up being a generic killer clown movie, because that's not what the book is about at all.

I doubt that the 'Beverly gang bang' will be in there though, lol.
 
This whole sequence kind of DOES work in the book, but only because there's been 1,000 pages leading up to it (if you just went and read it now without reading the rest you'd be like 'wtf??') and it's the only way the characters can bond any closer. There's nothing sexual about it anyway. From the boys' point of view they don't really know what they're doing. In the film they should just kiss, if they don't cut all that part anyway, which they probably will.

In the TV series they made it seem like it was just the clown (and then the stupid spider at the end). Yes Pennywise was IT's most common incarnation, but there's also the werewolf, leper, mummy, the huge bird, all manner of sick things that come after them.
 
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